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“Diving Instructor: Heads up, Pappas. I want to see you retrieve at least two bricks.

Pappas: [puts on blindfold] I’ve been on the job for over 20 years, and I fail to see what fishing bricks from the bottom of a pool has got to do with bank robbery. And on top of that, they got me babysitting some quarterback punk named Johnny Unitas or something.

Johnny Utah: The shit they pull, huh?

Pappas: Yeah!

Diving Instructor: Pappas...meet your new partner.

Pappas: What?

[removes blindfold]

Johnny Utah: [waves]

Pappas: Pappas. Angelo Pappas.

Johnny Utah: Punk. Quarterback punk.”
— Johnny Utah, Point Break
Tagged: Shit, bank robbery, blindfold, Punk
“Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say ‘anarchy in the UK.’ What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing. They were British, they were allowed to go on about Anarchy in the UK. You don't live your life by lyrics.”
— Stevo, SLC Punk
Tagged: posers, Punk, Fashion, Anarchy in the UK, Sex PIstols
“Duke: The lights are growing dim, Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.

Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.

Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.”
— Otto Maddox, Repo Man
Tagged: Bullshit, white, suburban, Punk
“Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks. I'll get your ass.”
— Bud, Repo Man
Tagged: Goddamn, Gypsy, dildo, Punk, Shit, ass
“I love activists. I love protest. I’m a punk. My music when I was growing up was punk. Hackers are punk.”
— Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Twitter, Punk, protest, activists, Hackers
“[in anger for ruining Elaine's wedding] You punk! You crazy punk! I'll kill you!”
— Mr. Robinson, The Graduate
Tagged: Punk, Death Threat
“You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?”
— Insp. Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
Tagged: Lucky, Punk, Threat
“You disloyal, fool-ass, bitch-made punk.”
— Alonzo Harris, Training Day
Tagged: disloyal, foolish ass, bitch-made, Punk, Insult
“Ashley: You know, you guys should try going a little more post-emo. Still punk, but less mopey.

Craig: I don't think the other guys even know what regular emo is. Spinner probably thinks it's a Muppet.”
— Ashley Kerwin, Degrassi, Season 4: Ghost in the Machine, Part 2
Tagged: Emo, Punk, mopey, muppets
“Yeah, come on! What you got! Oh yeah, who's bad? That's right. Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about, bitch. That's right, get your punk ass back to mommy. Yeah? Yeah, you got nothin'. You keep runnin'. Why don't you bring some of your friends, huh?”
— Jake Sully, Avatar
Tagged: Bad, cocky, Punk, Running, Friends
“I’ve always felt an affinity with the punk spirit. I like that word. Every collection is that. Punk is against flattery, and that’s what I like about it.”
— Rei Kawakubo, ‘The rules are in my head.’
Tagged: Punk
“Harold: I guess you'd prefer we listen to that punk rock music I've been reading about. You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience! Yep, that's what I wanna do. Spend my hard earned money to be spit on. Now that's entertainment...Elvis didn't expectorate on his fans.

Sam: No. But he died on the toilet.

Harold: Well, that's paradise compared to where the Sex Pistols are gonna end up.”
— Harold Weir, Freaks and Geeks, Season 1: Beers and Weirs
Tagged: Punk, punk rock, Sex PIstols, Elvis Presley, Paradise
“Punk is against flattery[…] The spirit of punk lies in not ingratiating oneself to preordained values or accepting standard authority.”
— Rei Kawakubo, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
Tagged: Punk, Authority, Norms

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